The Shanghai Conservatory, Chinese Musical Life, and the Russian Diaspora, 1927–1949

Bibliographic Data

ID19521027
AuthorsDedicated to Neil Edmunds (Hong Kong Baptist University), Hon-Lun Yang (0000-0003-3373-2534, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Year2012
Volume37
Issue1
Pages73-95
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTwentieth-Century China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1521-5385 • E-ISSN: 1940-5065
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1179/194050611x13188386908378
OpenAlexW2006682037
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was home to communities and musicians from all parts of the world. Among the over 20,000 Russians living there, a significant population of musicians contributed to the musical life of the city, particularly the Conservatory of Music founded in November 1927. This article reveals an overlooked phase of musical exchange between China and the West by 1) tracing the context and early development of the Conservatory; 2) identifying and discussing the activities of the Russian pedagogues (including Boris Zakharov, Vladimir Shushlin, and Sergei Aksakov amongst others) and their more notable Chinese students’ (including Li Delun, Ding Shande, Wu Leyi, and Yi Kaiji amongst others) reaction to them; 3) assessing the role that Russians played in the affairs of the Conservatory; and 4) demonstrating how Russian pedagogues influenced the development of Western classical music in China through their students’ notable achievements

Archaeology · Art · China · Context (archaeology) · Diaspora · Musical · Population · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis

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